Recent content by druthers

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    Track Cycling at the 2020...2021 Olympics

    the hopes and dreams of a nation? and a bunch of skin off that dudes face. its always a shame to see people beaten by misfortune.
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 18: Pau – Luz Ardiden, 129.7 km

    he's a 22 year old professional athlete. What is this thing called "fat" that you talk of?
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 13: Nîmes – Carcassonne, 219.9 km

    I guess part of what i was trying to say was that people, and this includes Cav, only get to be one of those handful of riders by being consitently brilliant at their speciality for a very long time.
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 13: Nîmes – Carcassonne, 219.9 km

    Surely team politics is a big part of bike racing, and, for a sprinter, a big part of the politics of bike racing is getting onto the team with the best lead out and convincing the team managers that yours is the basket they need to be putting their eggs in? In general i feel like its absolutly...
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    Crashes, what can be done?

    This is probably one of those statments made by someone who is a relativly recent follower of the sport who thinks they can "fix" cycling but turns out to have missed something obvious: But, if you replace the 3km rule with something like the below, how do people think that would play out? “In...